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Keizer Christian Church

“Proclaiming Christ’s Love, Building Community,

Meeting Human Need”

E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (503) 393-6843

Website: www.keizerchristian.org

Unsung Heroes

Thank you to Dena Query, Gerry Henjum, Margy McCurry and Laurie

Costales for preparing the food for our Ash Wednesday Soup and Bread Supper.

Saturday Women’s Fellowship

We will meet at church this Saturday, February 21st. Ardith McIntyre will be our hostess. This month’s Bible Study will focus on Bathsheba from the following verses: 2 Samuel 11:1-12, 25; I Kings 1:1-31; I Kings 2:10-25.

Men’s Group

The men will be meeting for breakfast and study on Saturday, February 28th at 8 a.m. at church. (Bring some money to put in the pot to reimburse our chef for the breakfast supplies.) If you have not previously attended,

please let Pastor Bob know and he will email the study materials to you.

Announcements

Just a reminder that announcements will be on the screen before and after the worship service and also printed in your bulletin for you to take home beginning this Sunday, February 22nd. If you have an announcement you would like to share with the congregation, please turn them into the office by 1 pm. on the Tuesday before.

Week of Compassion

We will be taking our special offering for Week of Compassion on February 22 and 29. There will be inserts explaining the offering along with envelopes for you to use. This offering is over and above our monthly offerings to the church and goes directly to the Week of

Compassion program. You can find more information at www.weekofcompassion.org.

Contents

Women’s Fellowship 1

Men’s Group 1

Announcements 1

Unsung Hero 1

Week of Compassion 1

Arnold’s Applications 2

Blessings and Concerns 3

Food Bank 3

Bible Adventure Week 3

Serving Schedule 4

Easter Egg Stuffing Party 4

Calendar 5

Birthdays/Anniversaries 6

Happenings 6

Preschool Spaces 6

February 19, 2015

http://www.weekofcompassion.org/

Arnold’s Applications

When I was growing up, our church did not pay a whole lot of

attention to the traditional seasons of the Christian year. I do

remember our children’s choir director putting up a Christian

calendar in the choir room and teaching us the names of the

seasons – Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and

Pentecost. Some of the parents dismissed the whole affair as

bringing Roman Catholicism into the protestant church. However,

as time has passed, Disciples of Christ congregations have come to

appreciate the value in honoring at least some of the seasons,

particularly Advent and Lent. (The Christmas season already had

ample attention, as did Easter Sunday, if not the whole season of

Easter).

Ash Wednesday begins the journey of Lent. Lent consists of the

forty days prior to Easter (excluding Sundays). In the season of

Lent, we prepare ourselves to accept once again Jesus’ atoning

sacrifice on the cross and the good news of the Resurrection. We cannot appreciate the atoning

sacrifice if we do not grasp the sin and distance from God in our lives. Likewise, we cannot

properly value the Resurrection news, if we have not come up hard against our own mortality. Yet,

much of the world finds itself too busy to consider such things. Accordingly, the church sets aside

this season of Lent as a time to reflect on these issues.

Sundays are excluded from Lent, because every Sunday marks the joy of the Resurrection. We

worship on Sunday, because Sunday is the day of the Resurrection. Accordingly, Sunday is meant

to be a day of joyous worship and celebration. Lent, on the other hand, can prove to be a weighty

and heavy season. It does not have to be a time of excessive guilt and mournfulness, but we do well

to make it a time of serious reflection.

How are we striving against sin? Where does sin prove intractable despite our strivings? How

short and fragile are our lives save for the promise of eternal life in Christ? What gratitude do we

owe God for the gift of this life as well as for the gift of the life to come?

In this Lenten season, let us take some time to ponder these questions. Maybe each day we can

pause at least for a moment to reflect on them. If we do, then we will have spent a holy and

productive Lent.

With you in the Lenten journey,

Pastor Bob

Pastor Bob Arnold

Email:

[email protected]

Open Office Hours:

Monday—Thursday

From 9 am to noon

Have mercy on me, O God, according

to your unfailing love; according to

your great compassion blot out my

transgressions. Wash away all my

iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:1-2

Food Bank Item for

February is CEREAL!

Keizer Community

Food Bank

Blessings and Concerns

Please pray for my father who has probable pneumonia. Not good with bad COPD. Also pray for a friend who just beat cancer but has stage 4 COPD and will be calling in hospice. Kathryn Dodge

From February 15th:

My niece is recovering well. She is now posting her own updates on the internet. She is walking short walks with the assist of a walker and is making great progress. Thank you all for your prayers and concern. Our daughter Patricia can still use prayers. The Reynolds

Prayers for family and friends of longtime friend Karen Luttinger who passed away in her sleep unexpectedly on Wednesday night. Sue Day

Prayers for our grandson Alex who has been in the hospital with strep throat. Jane Slack

Previous Blessings and Concerns:

Please pray for my friend Holly who had emergency surgery for a perforated colon. Pray for a speedy recovery. She also has a very rare form of cancer and is in a trial. Pray that the trial works. Robin Smith Zielinski

Troy’s heart procedure didn’t do the trick so he will be going back for another ablation on February 25th. Prayers are appreciated. The Costales Family

Pastor Jim Bradford’s angioplasty to place a stent went well and he is home recuperating.

Update on Leila Pearson – she is at home and has a caregiver helping out for now.

Bible Adventure Week Sign Up

Thanks to those of you who have already signed up for Bible Adventure Week this summer! It will be held the week of August 3-7 from 9 am to noon. We ask that all volunteers report at 8:30 am so we can have time for prayer and announcements. If you are able to help, please sign up as soon as possible on the clipboard in the Fellowship Hall.

In order to hold this program, we need a minimum of 30 volunteers signed up by March 29th so that we can order curriculum and begin planning. Some spaces are available in the activity centers, but most of the needed help is for the classrooms. Classroom “shepherds” stay with their class from activity to activity and assist the activity leaders. If you have any questions, please call Laurie Costales.

Pam

Thank you to those who

came on Monday, February

16th; we served 22 families.

Special thanks to Don Slack

and Vicki Zielinski who

picked up the food from

Marion Polk Food Share on

Friday before the Monday

Holiday.

Our February food is cereal

and in March we will be

concentrating on tuna and

other canned meats.

There is a list of core foods

that are always needed by

the food bank on the display

board in the Narthex.

KEIZER CHRISTIAN CHURCH

6945 Wheatland Road NE

Keizer OR 97303

Serving Schedule

February 22, 2015

Candlelighter ........................... Riley Auvinen

Children’s Church ............................. Ellie Hill

Elders ......... Pam Elliott and Margy McCurry

Deacons ...................... Jay and Tammy Puppo

Don Slack and Laurie Costales

Greeter ...................................... Robin Zielinski

Guestbook .......................................... Ellie Hill

Usher .................................... Cindy Cheuvront

Coffee Hour Treats ................. Tammy Puppo

March 1, 2015

Candlelighter ............................. Kaleb Graven

Children’s Church ................. Robin Zielinski

Elders ........ Wilma Bogue and Kathee Moore

Deacons ........ Christa Ryan and Luke Puppo

Kathryn Dodge and Paul Costales

Greeter .............................................. Don Slack

Guestbook ................................ Vicki Zielinski

Usher .................................... Cindy Cheuvront

Coffee Hour Treats ........... Henjum/McCurry

Easter Egg Stuffing Party

Mark your calendars! We will be stuffing Easter Eggs after church on Sunday, March 22nd for our Annual Easter Egg Hunt. Everyone is welcome to come join in the fun. The Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 4th at 10 am. If you are able to help, please see Robin Zielinski.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30 31

EACH SUNDAY

10:00 a.m.—Worship and

Children’s Church

You can also access the calendar at any time from home at our website: www.KeizerChristian.org by clicking on the

“News and Events” button. The on-line calendar is updated daily with any corrections.

9 am Newsletter deadline

11 am KCC Bible Study

7 pm Elder’s Mtg.

Newsletter emailed

9 am Newsletter Deadline


*See Article in Newsletter

Birthday Sunday

Set your clocks ahead

Before you go to bed!


8 am Men’s Group at Church

4 pm Food Bank* 6:30 pm Choir Practice


7 pm Council Meeting

6:30 pm Prayer Shawl & Lap Quilt

6:30 pm Choir Practice

6:30 pm Choir Practice

Palm Sunday—bring

your flowers

Newsletter emailed

6:30 pm Choir Practice 7 pm Worship Comm. Mtg.

9:30 am Saturday Women’s Fellowship

After Church—Education Meeting

9 am Newsletter Deadline


8 am Men’s Group at Shari’s

After Church—Easter Egg Stuffing Party!*

HAPPENINGS . . .

These are items that come into the church and are included in the newsletter if space is available.

Corban University Hymn Fest February 19 and 20 at 7:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church. Free Admission. For more infor-mation call 503-375-7019.

Grace House Fundraiser March 1 from 4:30-7:30 pm, Creekside Golf Club. Featuring music performed by Baxter Hill Gospel Bluegrass Band Buy your tickets here for our “Soup for Your Supper” Fundraiser. Be present to vote on your favorite tasty soups, chance to win door prizes, listen to great music and support Grace House

Big Questions Over Lunch March 3 from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm, Alumni Lounge of the Putnam University Center at Willamette University. Bring your own lunch or come early and purchase one at the Cat Cavern Café. Richard Francaviglia, visiting assistant professor of religious studies, will explore the question, “Is ISIS really Un-Islamic?” at the Big Questions Over Lunch session. For more information about the program, please see www.willamette.edu/dept/chaplain/events/index.html.

McNary Knight of Arts March 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm, McNary High School. Come, Be Our Guest! Medieval style attire, flowing banners, and wenches serving rustic appetiz-ers and desserts all help create the mood during our silent auction. At our performance, the Band, Choir, Orchestra, and Theater students create a rousing musical and theatrical telling of a King’s Banquet. Photo, Video, and Art students present their works and docu-ment the evening for all. It is a fairy-tale experience that gives our students a real life taste of show production and perfor-mance. The funds raised will go toward equipment, materials, guest artists and scholarships for all Art Students at McNary High School. Your attendance matters because A Knight of Arts matters...it is our biggest event of the year, with arguably the best silent and live auction in the kingdom! Tickets $15. For more info call 503-399-3233.

Grandparent Conference

March 20-21, Salem First Baptist Church. Guest Speakers John Coulombe and Lillian Penner will present a conference on “Building a Spiritual Legacy for the Next Generation. For more info contact Nancy Sperling at 503-581-4465.

Chris Tomlin Concert Tour April 10 at 7 pm, Moda Center in Portland. The Chris Tomlin “Love Ran Red” Tour with Special Guests Tenth Avenue North and Rend Collective. There is special ticket pricing for groups of 10 or more. For more information, please call 1-800-745-3000.

Preschool Spaces

Preschool registration begins for the fall school year on March 2nd!

Spread the news to your friends and neighbors about this great program. The 3 year old class meets on Mondays and Wednesdays, the 4 year olds meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All class times are 9 to 11:30 am and the school year runs from Labor Day to Memorial Day.

Children must be 3 or 4 by September 1st to qualify for that classroom. Tuition is $120 per month with a registration fee of $60 (prior to June 1, $75 after June 1).

If you want more information, you can call the office at 503-393-6843.

Luke Puppo 3-2

Roy Biehn 3-5

Pam Elliott 3-8

Clyde Mullin 3-8

Cindy Cheuvront 3-9

Nancy Dalrymple 3-10

Juanita Weigel 3-10

Sabine Hormann 3-12

Bev Fitzgerald 3-13

Julie Hittle 3-14

Wes Norbo 3-15

Rachael Lahman 3-18

Kaleb Graven 3-20

Dean & Julie Hittle 3-25

http://womenatthewellgracehouse.com/soup-for-your-supper-event.html

http://www.willamette.edu/dept/chaplain/events/index.html

http://www.willamette.edu/dept/chaplain/events/index.html

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